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Enjoy our definitive guide to this weekend’s events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

Much has been made of the influence that the Teacher’s Pet podcast might have had over the bringing to trial of Christopher Dawson and over the trial itself.

Enjoy our definitive guide to this weekend’s events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

“Last week was Sugar Awareness Week. A lot of sugar; not much awareness. Australia is lagging hopelessly behind on dealing with the obesity-diabetes epidemic, most of which can be put down to too much sugar in the diet, particularly through sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages and breakfast cereals…”

The Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card 2022 has been released by Wet Tropics Waterways.

It grades the condition of the freshwater basins, estuaries and marine environments across the Wet Tropics as an action of the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan. For the first time it includes data on mangrove condition.

Enjoy our definitive guide to this weekend’s events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

“The danger with next month’s jobs summit is that all the usual suspects will ply their usual self-interested snake-oil remedies which the Government will swallow to the detriment of the people who do not have a seat at the summit: those whose lives are made worse by high population – waiting for a medical appointment; sitting in congested traffic; cut out of housing; or with children in teacherless classes…”

“We should recognise that every government program is susceptible to rorting and that effective self-regulation is an oxymoron….”

Enjoy our definitive guide to this weekend’s events around the Douglas Shire and beyond….

The Port Douglas Gran Fondo is coming to the region, delivering up to $5 million into the local economy with a variety of cycling courses and Festival events.